[mythtv-users] Choppy video playback

[Jake Thompson]

One thing that helped me troubleshoot was playing xine by itself and
watching the output.  I saw a kernel message of an IRQ being disabled which
led me to the solution I proposed.  Perhaps you can gleen something from the
xine output.

-Jake


On 7/12/06, Brent Englehart <brentje at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately I'm in the same boat...this didn't solve
> the problem.  But it's given me something else to
> search for, so thanks for that at least.  I'm
> wondering though, since the mobo I have (the GA-6PMM)
> has an onboard video card.  I can't find anything in
> the bios to disable it, and the kernel does pick it
> up.  I don't see any problems in the dmesg log
> regarding it, but I wonder if there's a conflict.  Are
> there any ways to find out if my video card is
> conflicting with something else?
>
> Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 00:52:56 -0400
> From: "Michael A Weber" <mweberjunk01 at wowway.com>
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy video playback
> To: "'Discussion about mythtv'"
> <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
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> Jake-
>
> Well, unfortunately, I just tried it with no success,
> even though I'm not the writer of this original
> posting (I do have the same problem).
>
> Thanks for the suggestion though!  You are the first
> and only person to suggest anything regarding this
> issue!
>
> Mike
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: Jake Thompson [mailto:jake at jakethompson.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 3:02 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Choppy video playback
>
>
> Well, we just had a discussion on the list about my
> choppy play back using FC5 and a VIA Graphics card, I
> solved the problem with:
>
> edit /etc/grub.conf
> and modify your kernel line adding to the end:
>
> noapic nolapic pci=noacpi acpi=off
>
> Try it, you never know.
>
> -Jake
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